GHASP : An Halpha kinematic survey of spiral and irregular galaxies - VI. New Halpha data cubes for 108 galaxies B. Epinat, P. Amram, M. Marcelin, C. Balkowski, O. Daigle, O. Hernandez, L. Chemin, C. Carignan, J. -L. Gach, P. Balard To cite this version: B. Epinat, P. Amram, M. Marcelin, C. Balkowski, O. Daigle, et al.. GHASP : An Halpha kinematic survey of spiral and irregular galaxies - VI. New Halpha data cubes for 108 galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy P - Oxford Open Option A, 2008, 388, pp.500. hal-00325102 HAL Id: hal-00325102 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00325102 Submitted on 30 Apr 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 388, 500–550 (2008) doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13422.x GHASP:anHα kinematic survey of spiral and irregular galaxies – VI. New Hα data cubes for 108 galaxies B. Epinat,1 P. Amram,1 M. Marcelin,1 C. Balkowski,2 O. Daigle,1,3 O. Hernandez,1,3 L. Chemin,2 C. Carignan,3 J.-L. Gach1 and P. Balard1 1Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, OAMP, Universite´ de Provence & CNRS, 38 rue F. Joliot - Curie, 13388 Marseille, Cedex 13, France 2GEPI, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, Universite´ Paris VII, 5 Place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France 3LAE et Observatoire du mont Megantic,´ Universite´ de Montreal,´ C. P. 6128 succ. centre ville, Montreal,´ Quebec,´ Canada H3C 3J7 Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/388/2/500/976912 by guest on 30 April 2021 Accepted 2008 May 7. Received 2008 May 4; in original form 2008 January 15 ABSTRACT We present the Fabry–Perot observations obtained for a new set of 108 galaxies in the frame of the Gassendi Hα survey of SPirals (GHASP). The GHASP survey consists of 3D Hα data cubes for 203 spiral and irregular galaxies, covering a large range in morphological types and absolute magnitudes, for kinematics analysis. The new set of data presented here completes the survey. The GHASP sample is by now the largest sample of Fabry–Perot data ever published. The analysis of the whole GHASP sample will be done in forthcoming papers. Using adaptive binning techniques based on Voronoi tessellations, we have derived Hα data cubes from which are computed Hα maps, radial velocity fields as well as residual velocity fields, position–velocity diagrams, rotation curves and the kinematical parameters for almost all galaxies. Original improvements in the determination of the kinematical parameters, rotation curves and their uncertainties have been implemented in the reduction procedure. This new method is based on the whole 2D velocity field and on the power spectrum of the residual velocity field rather than the classical method using successive crowns in the velocity field. Among the results, we point out that morphological position angles have systematically higher uncertainties than kinematical ones, especially for galaxies with low inclination. The morphological inclination of galaxies having no robust determination of their morphological position angle cannot be constrained correctly. Galaxies with high inclination show a better agreement between their kinematical inclination and their morphological inclination computed assuming a thin disc. The consistency of the velocity amplitude of our rotation curves has been checked using the Tully–Fisher relationship. Our data are in good agreement with previous determinations found in the literature. Nevertheless, galaxies with low inclination have statistically higher velocities than expected and fast rotators are less luminous than expected. Key words: galaxies: dwarf – galaxies: irregular – galaxies: kinematics and dynamics – galaxies: spiral. (GHASP). The GHASP survey consists of a sample of 203 spiral 1 INTRODUCTION and irregular galaxies, mostly located in nearby low density envi- As it is nowadays largely admitted, 2D velocity fields allow the ronments, observed with a scanning Fabry–Perot for studying their computation of 1D rotation curves in a more robust way than long- kinematical and dynamical properties through the ionized hydrogen slit spectrography. Indeed, first of all, the spatial coverage is larger component. and moreover, the kinematical parameters are determined a posteri- Studying the links between parameters reflecting the dynamical ori instead of a priori in long-slit spectrography. In that context, we state of a galaxy will help us to have a better understanding of the have undertaken the kinematical 3D Gassendi Hα survey of SPirals evolution of galaxies. This sample has been constituted in order: (i) to compute the local Tully–Fisher relation; (ii) to compare the kinematics of galaxies in different envi- E-mail: [email protected] ronments (field, pairs, compact groups, galaxies in cluster) for C 2008 The Authors. Journal compilation C 2008 RAS GHASP: an Hα kinematic survey 501 discriminating secular evolution from an external origin (e.g. curves are finally displayed in Appendix E, while the numerical Garrido et al. 2005); tables corresponding to the rotation curves are given in Appendix F. (iii) to study the distribution of luminous and dark halo compo- When the distances of the galaxies are not known, a Hubble −1 −1 nents along the Hubble sequence for high and low surface brightness constant H0 = 75 km s Mpc is used throughout this paper. galaxies, for a wide range of luminosities in combining the optical data with the radio ones (e.g. Barnes, Sellwood & Kosowsky 2004; 2 OBSERVATIONS AND DATA REDUCTION Spano et al. 2008); (iv) to model the effect of non-axisymmetric structures like 2.1 The GHASP sample bars, spiral arms, oval distortions, lopsidedness in the mass dis- tribution using both N-body and hydrodynamic numerical simu- The GHASP survey was originally selected to be a subsample com- lations (e.g. Hernandez et al., in preparation), kinematic analysis plementing the radio survey Westerbork survey of H I in SPirals (e.g. Krajnovic´ et al. 2006) and the Tremaine–Weinberg method galaxies (WHISP) providing H I distribution and velocity maps for to measure the bar, spiral and inner structure pattern speeds about 400 galaxies (http://www.astro.rug.nl/ whisp). The first set of (Hernandez et al. 2005a); GHASP galaxies was selected from the first WHISP website list but Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/388/2/500/976912 by guest on 30 April 2021 (v) to analyse the gaseous velocity dispersion and to link it with some of them have never been observed by WHISP. Thus, only 130 the stellar one; galaxies have finally been observed in both surveys. The compari- (vi) to create template rotation curves (e.g. Persic & Salucci son between the kinematics of neutral and ionized gas coming from 1991; Persic, Salucci & Stel 1996; Catinella, Giovanelli & Haynes the GHASP and the WHISP data sets is possible for a subsample of 2006) and template velocity fields; 31 dwarf galaxies studied by Swaters et al. (2002) and for another (vii) to map the 2D mass distribution using 2D velocity field, subsample of 19 early-type galaxies analysed by Noordermeer et al. broad-band imagery and spectrophotometric evolutionary models; (2005), the remaining part of the WHISP sample being yet unpub- (viii) to search for links between the kinematics (shape of rotation lished but most of the H I maps are nevertheless available in the curves, angular momentum, etc.) and the other physical properties of WHISP website. galaxies like star formation rate (e.g. comparison with star-forming Most of the GHASP targets were chosen in nearby low-density galaxies like blue compact galaxies, etc.); and environments. Nevertheless, some galaxies in pairs or in low density (ix) to produce a reference sample of nearby galaxies to com- groups have been observed mainly when they were selected by pare to the kinematics of high-redshift galaxies (Puech et al. 2006; WHISP (see individual comments in Appendix B). Seven galaxies Epinat, Amram & Balkowski 2007). Indeed, it is necessary to disen- of the GHASP sample are located in nearby clusters (UGC 1437 in tangle the effects of galaxy evolution from spatial (beam smearing) the cluster Abell 262, UGC 4422 and 4456 in the Cancer cluster, and spectral resolution effects. UGC 6702 in the cluster Abell 1367, UGC 7021, 7901 and 7985 in the Virgo cluster). More Virgo cluster galaxies observed with This paper is the sixth of a series called hereafter Paper I–V the same instrument have been published elsewhere (Chemin et al. (Garrido et al. 2002, 2003; Garrido, Marcelin & Amram 2004; 2006). Garrido et al. 2005; Spano et al. 2008) presenting the data ob- Fig. 1 displays the distribution of the whole GHASP survey in the tained in the frame of the GHASP survey. The data gathered with magnitude–morphological type plane. We have found in the litera- the seven first observing runs have been published from Paper I to ture measurements for both MB and Hubble type for 198 galaxies IV. Dark matter distribution in a subsample of 36 spiral galaxies (out of 203 galaxies). Among the sample of 203 galaxies, 83 are has been presented in Paper V. This paper presents the last unpub- strongly barred galaxies (SB or IB) and 53 are moderately barred lished 101 Hα data cubes of the GHASP survey. It includes 108 galaxies (SAB or IAB). The GHASP sample provides a wide cov- galaxies (seven data cubes contain two galaxies), providing 106 erage in galaxy luminosities (−16 ≤ MB ≤−22), thus in galaxy velocity fields and 93 rotation curves resulting from observational masses from (109 to 5 × 1011 M) and in morphological types runs eight to fourteen.